Precious Metals

Every other form of money that existed 5,000 years ago is gone. Gold is still here — still traded around the clock, still stacked in central bank vaults, still the asset people reach for when trust in everything else wavers. This is the story of why precious metals endure, and how their markets actually work.

Three ancient civilizations built the conceptual scaffolding of modern money. How silver and gold became the first widely trusted way to store value and settle exchange.